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83881) Undoctrinate: How Politicized Classrooms Harm Kids and Ruin Our Schools―and What We Can Do About It
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Are your kids being indoctrinated in school? Unfortunately, it's increasingly likely. From "social justice" to critical race theory, and from advocacy and activism campaigns to planned "action weeks," teachers and schools nationwide are abandoning neutrality in the classroom, embracing political agendas and partisan aims, and expecting students to get on board. Meanwhile, students with doubts or misgivings decline to voice objections due to fears...
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An in-depth course of study in the modern practice of traditional witchcraft.
I stand in the meadow, at the forest's edge. One-step forward and I will straddle the boundary between fading light in the swaying grass and rich darkness in the woods. One more step and I will be immersed in the nighttime world of southern, hardwood forest. My home lay behind me, the wild magic ahead. I am the witch at the forest's edge. This book is an invitation to...
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En este libro íntimo, honesto y lleno de humor, los pastores y comunicadores internacionales Andrés y Kelly Spyker comparten sobre su matrimonio de 20 años y los principios no negociables que les han ayudado a superar constantemente sus diferencias y a profundizar en su determinación de ser un equipo unido, sin dejar de fomentar los sueños y el potencial del otro.
Andrés y Kelly Spyker nos entregan una obra en la que aprendemos de las relaciones...
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Understand the Prophets Like Never Before with Amazing Insights from One of Today's Foremost Old Testament Scholars
For many Christians reading the Old Testament, trying to understand Israel's prophets is like listening to just one side of a phone conversation-you only get half the idea of it. You hear the answer, but how do you know what question the prophet is answering?
In The Lost Letters to the Twelve Prophets, John Goldingay uncovers the questions...
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Many Christians wonder, "Why am I stuck spiritually when I read the Bible pray, and go to church?" In Bury Your Ordinary, Pastor Justin Kendrick offers a clear map for spiritual growth to help readers:
• Develop seven habits that lead to explosive spiritual growth
• Realize the number-one ingredient God looks for in a disciple maker
• Share their faith as a way of life
• Learn to follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit
• Live out the truth...
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The Practice of Pastoral Care has become a popular seminary textbook for courses in pastoral care and a manual for clinical pastoral education. In it, Doehring encourages counselors to view their ministry through a trifocal lens that incorporates premodern, modern, and postmodern approaches to religious and psychological knowledge. Doehring describes the basic ingredients of a ...
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What would you be willing to give up to gain the presence of God in your life again?
Many of us sign up for a physical detox program, thinking that if our bodies are healthier, then we're healthier. But a healthy body doesn't do us a lot of good if we are spiritually malnourished.
Welcome to the 40-Day Sugar Fast, a fast that begins with us giving Jesus our sugar and ends with Jesus giving us himself--the only thing that can ever truly satisfy our...
83888) Mount Rushmore
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Four U.S. presidents forever stare out across the Black Hills of South Dakota. Join a park ranger as he introduces the story of the creation and importance of Mount Rushmore.
83889) Vedanta Philosophy
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Vedanta is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy. Vedanta reflects ideas and philosophies contained in the Upanishads. It does not stand for one comprehensive or unifying doctrine. This book focuses on themes of reincarnation, evolution, and transmigration. Nothing is destroyed in the universe.
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A beautiful and engaging rendering of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead is one of the oldest and greatest classics of Western spirituality. Until now, the available translations have treated these writings as historical curiosities that have little relevance to our contemporary situations. This new version, made from the hieroglyphs, approaches the Book of the Dead as a profound spiritual text capable of speaking to us...
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In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, and political resistance. Life on the cooperative farm presented an...
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Powerful gusts and heavy rains starting in the ocean can mean only one thing: hurricane! The storm's forceful winds can uproot trees and send cars flitting through the air. From Hurricane Katrina to the Great Hurricane of 1780, stand up to the storm surges and read about the worst hurricanes in history.
83893) Conversations
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A surprising, enlightening series of conversations that shed new light on the music and career of “our greatest living composer” (New York Times)
Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western...
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From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genre
True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored?
In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light...
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Using archival and archaeological sources two historians reveal the hidden history of the Knights Templar and their travels to America in pre-Columbian America and their influence on the Founding Fathers.
Templars in America reveals the story of two leading European Templar families who combined forces to create a new commonwealth in America nearly a century before the voyages of Christopher Columbus. Henry St. Clair of the Orkney Islands, then part...
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We are the first generation to live in a science fiction world. Media headlines declare this the age of automation. The TV talks about the coming revolution of the robot, tweets tell tales of jets that will ferry travelers to the edge of space, and social media reports that the first human to live for a thousand years has already been born. The science we do, the movies we watch, and the culture we consume is the stuff of fiction that became fact,...
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Recipes, rituals, and practices for getting rid of negative energy.
Everyone, at one time or another, has met an individual who appears to be surrounded by negativity, or has visited a place that seems imbued with "bad vibrations." Removing these negative vibrations is what spiritual cleansing is all about.
Magic practitioner Draja Mickaharic offers simple and effective solutions drawn from every ethnic group and spiritual practice.
Spiritual Cleansing...
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There's no script for effective leadership. But you don't need one.
Anyone who's learned the basics of an instrument can follow a chord chart or play from sheet music, but only musicians who have carefully developed their talent can improvise. Instead of being limited to the notes on the page, great improvisers draw on the theory and techniques they've learned in the past to create something original in the present.
The same is true of great leaders....
83900) The Science of Weapons
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Humans have used weapons to fight their enemies since the dawn of history. Today's military arsenal is filled with the most accurate and sophisticated tools yet. Read all about these high tech weapons and the science that went into their development.